U
N General Assembly Vote on Financing of UNIFIL

JUNE
26, 1998

GA/9425
88th Meeting

Through a draft resolution on financing of
the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) (document A/52/932),
the Assembly would decide to appropriate the amount of almost $143 million
gross (about $139.1 million net) for the maintenance of the Force for the
period from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 1999.

By
other terms, the Assembly would express deep concern that the Government of
Israel did not comply with General Assembly resolution 51/233. [In that
resolution, the Assembly decided that Israel should pay the costs arising
from the 1996 incident at UNIFIL headquarters in Qana, Lebanon.] It would
stress that Israel should abide by the terms of resolution 51/233, request
the Secretary-General to take the necessary measures to ensure the full
implementation of its paragraph 8, to the effect that Israel should pay for
costs resulting from the Qana incident. The Assembly would decide that an
additional $639,356, relating to the incident for the period from 1 July
1996 to 30 June 1997, would be treated in accordance with resolution 51/233.

[Those paragraphs refer to Assembly
resolution 51/233, in which it was decided that Israel should pay the costs
relating from the 1996 incident at UNIFIL headquarters in Qana, Lebanon.]

The Assembly decided to include those
paragraphs by a vote of 68 in favour to 2 against (Israel, United States),
with 41 abstentions. (See ANNEX 1)

Next,
the draft was voted on as a whole. The Assembly adopted the text by a vote
of 109 in favour to 2 against (Israel, United States), with no abstentions.
(See ANNEX 2)

The first preambular paragraph and operative
paragraphs 3, 4, 5 and 16 of the draft text on the financing of UNIFIL
(document A/52/932) was adopted by a recorded vote of 68 in favour to 2
against, with 41 abstentions, as follows: